A sketchy little story about a boy, a human mockingjay, eyes bluer than skies, and way too many explosions. It traps my heart and makes me cry. (THG in Book Thief narration style, Gale-centric & canon-compliant - as far as we know.)

"Volunteering is not allowed, dear." —How Prim and Peeta win the Hunger Games, how Prim and Haymitch defeat the Quarter Quell, how Prim becomes the face of the rebellion, and how everything turns out the same in the end. (Previously titled The Precious Little Girl Who Glowed.)

The Potter house couldn't be seen by Muggles. It was a memorial to the Potters and a structure to be revered by the wizarding community. But one side of the Potter family was not magical. And what does this side, a Petunia Dursley to be specific, do when she realizes that she can't even see the place where her sister died?

"He watched her face, watched how she came more alive with Samir than she'd ever been with him, watched how he'd disappeared in her eyes as soon as she heard Samir's voice, and he knew. He knew she was a goner." The Baker's story of how he loved and lost.

She'd grown up hearing stories about the girl who should have been her mother. The girl who walked away from her father 15 years ago, and had every right to. But now Daddy is dead, and it is her job to tell her. The story of Gale's daughter. Oneshot.

Her eyes are as soft as clouds and make him forget how to talk. Viktor Krum's relationship with Hermione Granger was by no means straightforward. Mostly Viktor/Hermione but very eventually Ron/Hermione. Final chapter now up!

In which Rose tries to bake Lorcan a cake for his birthday with a little help from Albus. "Brightest witch of our age, and you can't do something as simple as bake?" —Nextgen RoseLorcan, RoseAlbus. For Erin.

"The mourning, the funerals, the rebuilding—most of that is done and over. It's all over. But it doesn't feel over to him." Friendships fic, Harry and three conversations. Post-war, pre-epilogue. For Rachel.

"One summer night, she catches her oddity brother in the middle of the night, staring out the window with a sketchpad in his hand." Raleigh's thoughts on her younger brother Cinna, before and after the Rebellion. For Paige.

"You know what the funny thing is?" Ariel asks one day. They're fifteen now, and still best friends. "The funny thing is, I've only had an actual cake twice." A rather short story, involving love, teddy bears, two best friends and a younger brother, the Hunger Games, and of course, chocolate cake with cream. For Aproma and all of Caesar's Palace.

"For the first few months that Gale is away, letters and pictures can be expected at least once a week. But soon, the letters become not only shorter but also fewer and farther between. And, well, it's lonely." Gale/Katniss/Peeta, modern day AU. In which Gale is a long-distance trucker and Katniss is tired of waiting for him to come home. For Madeline.

"Victoire sighs and stares out the owlery window, wondering what mess she got herself into. It's just one Hogsmeade date, she tells herself. It could be worse." Victoire-centric, Victoire/Dominique sisterhood, Victoire/Teddy/Dominique. For Gia.

"Her mother has exploded right in front of her eyes. She pinches herself. Maybe the nargles have messed with her brain more than she thought they did. She pinches herself again." A short fic, involving Luna, her mother, and what really matters. For Alice.

"He never really thought the world was pretty until he met her—bright Lily who looked at the world with fresh eyes. She was always saying the world was pretty—exactly that word. When Lily says it, he believes it." One-sided Severus/Lily, canon. For Jess.

"The rack of lollipops is too full without Maysilee to pilfer from them, without Maysilee to suck one during breaks despite the rule that they weren't supposed to eat the shop's candy, a rule they had never followed." Centered around the other half of the Donner twins. Winner of Caesar Palace's April 2013 monthly oneshot contest.

"It's Hermione, alright, but so much older, with scars, and circles under her eyes, and - who is the redheaded boy standing next to her, holding her hand?" Dr. Granger, trying to figure out what a father does after he learns that his daughter's growing up without him.

"She's floating on clouds. Her fifth year at Hogwarts seems like an eternal dream—lazy days with Cedric, cloud-gazing, dancing at the Yule Ball, sipping butterbeers at the Three Broomsticks. (But no it isn't. She falls from the clouds and the seemingly-eternal dream ends, and when she does, she falls hard and reality is even worse than she remembered.)" Cho. Moving on.

He lives in a tower. The deeper you work, the more important you are. The ones that live on the highest floor are most likely to be bombed. Seventy-five years before the Katniss Everdeen even entered the arena, there was a Rebellion. Seven months in life of a brother and sister living in District Thirteen during the Dark Days, where up is down and down is up. For Nami.

"She wonders why Andromeda can't be like the rest of them, why Andromeda just has to go along and ruin her perfect happiness, pop her visions of a perfect happy complete family." Narcissa Malfoy and her realities throughout her life.

"Everyone in District Four knows who Finnick Odair is: a famous, good-looking Victor, a winner, a celebrity, a warrior, a hero. But for some reason, no one ever tells him what happened to Finnick, why he isn't around anymore or never comes to visit him." Post-Mockingjay, pre-epilogue. A boy just wants to find his father.

"One day, he decides, he shall prove to everyone, the barbarians in Twelve and the smug executives here in the Capitol, that he is definitely one to be feared. He'll do anything to prove it. He will make an impact on this world." How Snow's obsession with roses begins. Winner of Starvation's January 2013 prompt: legendary.

"Some of us were just meant to smile. This is what her mother tells her when she asks for Latin lessons and additional history classes. Her mother asks why she would stick such a beautiful face inside a stinky-smelling book. Glimmer tries to explain how she wants to know... but her mother laughs." Glimmer-centric, Christmas fic for Angel.

"And so she begins her new life without a fairy tale heart. And she swears that one day, she is going to overthrow Coriolanus Snow. No matter the cost. Thus began President Coin's reign of power." Everything it took to lead up to this moment. Coin-centric, Snow/Coin. Second place winner of Starvation's December 2012 prompt: hearts.

"Katniss becomes the Mockingjay, something Prim finds funny, because in her mind, Katniss was never a Mockingjay—an accidental bird that imitated the call of others. Katniss was never a follower... But maybe, in the eyes of the Capitol at least, she was an accident. Someone that Capitol never wanted but got anyways." Prim's perspective throughout the trilogy. Mild primrory.

"'My name's Rey, by the way. Rey Hawthorne.' 'Hazelle Rollins,' she replies. Rey laughs. 'Hazelle, like the hazelnuts.' She is about to leave when Rey presses a single hazelnut into her palm. She begins to protest but all Rey does is shrug and smile and he disappears before she can give it back." The life and times of Hazelle Rollins Hawthorne.

"Arron has stopped asking 'Auntie Johanna' to join them long ago, but Annie never stops. And every time they come to the ocean, which is frequent, Annie will ask. 'You want me to teach you how to swim' And Johanna will shake her head, and Annie will shrug and go back to swimming with her son." Johanna-centered, for Paige's birthday.

"They argue about anything and everything—whether it's something as trivial as whether broccoli tastes better than cauliflower or something more serious like the evils of the Hunger Games. She usually wins, because he'll eventually get fed up and start swearing, which is never effective." Features the Haymitch's unnamed-mentioned-once girlfriend/Haymitch/Maysilee dynamic.

"It must be selfish to think of saving herself at someone else's expense, but she doesn't mind. Better them than her." Mags-centric. Second place winner of Starvation's October prompt: fallen and forgotten.

"Still, his hand trembles as he slips the poison, a small white pill, into the wine. His entire body shakes as he watches the white pill dissolve into the liquid, becoming invisible. For the rest of the evening, he feels all pale and jittery." People aren't born cold-blooded murderers. Snow's rise to power.

"The concept of never-ending water was unthinkable. It didn't make any sense in a district when all you could see were luxury good factories and shopping malls and jewels and land everywhere." The life Career-raised girl from District One.

"Unlike his Catnip, his specialty isn't the immediate, quick-release arrow. It's the snare, which requires more strategy and patience. But his snares never fail. And one way or another, he'll trap his Catnip into his heart." Winner of Starvation's September monthly challenge: Arrows.

"This girl, Prim, has saved his life. And now he must return the favor. He doesn't want to owe anyone. He's not dependent, he is proud and strong." Prequel to Buttercup. Buttercup's early days as a kitten, before Prim dies.

"…she does—truly, really, absolutely—need to go. For the first time in several years, she opens the envelope. Inside is one tiny slip of paper in her mother's handwriting. An address." Winner of Caesar Palace's monthly one-shot challenge for August 2012.

"She doesn't remember much of the 74th Hunger Games, except for the fact that Rue doesn't come home with a fancy parade, with food and smiles and hugs and kisses. She comes home in a white box instead." Life goes on for Rue's sisters after Rue dies. Or not. Written for Starvation's August 2012 prompt: Lullaby.

"…he loves her too much to do any of these things, and he sees that letting her go is what will truly make her happy. But what about him?" The baker's thoughts as the love of his life says goodbye to him. Written for Ky-lassassin in Caesar Palace's fic exchange.

"Being the baker's wife, it's unreasonable for her to hate icing. But she hasn't touched a single tube of icing since that day. And of course her family doesn't dare cross her about it. Or maybe they just don't care." Winner of Starvation's July 2012 prompt: Icing. Centered around Mrs. Mellark, Peeta's mom.

"So that one fateful day, when the bombs fall from the sky, raining death, he welcomes it. And his last wish is that Madge will survive." Centered around the Undersee family. Mainly about Mayor Undersee, and why he was the type of mayor he was.